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Subject: Re: [motm] Doepfer A-105 --> Everybody is a theif

From: jhaible@...
Date: 2001-05-06

> >>However, I will not remove my circuits from the net. People like
Doepfer
> are just thieves. Its extremely ironic that he suggests using 'his'
> interpolator module to get VC control of filter shape. The man has no
> decency!<<
>
> Everytime I see things like this come up I am amazed at what warped
> viewpoints get posted. Who knows whether Doepfer just grapped the
schematic
> to replicate or if he simply is incorporating some features he sees into a
> circuit designed from scratch. In addition, all this finger pointing at
> Doepfer as theives coming from those who in themselves are copying the
> designs and engineering of others doesn't quite seem right. It's also
> strange coming from those on the MOTM list when so far all the current
MOTM
> filters, and yet to be released ones are rip-offs of Korg, SSM, and
Oberheim
> designs. And one of the modules that Doepfer came out with that people
said
> he stole from JH, was infact a variation on a Polyfusion module that JH
> didn't exactly invent himself. The ridiculousness of it all.

Polyfusion ? What Polyfusion ??

Just to clarify: My SSM-style VCF for MOTM is not just a clone of the
SSM chip, or of any existing circuit that uses the SSM2040 chip. While
it's capable to emulate the standard 2040 application (as in Prophet 5
etc.), you cannot emulate some of my filter's features with any circuit
built around an original SSM2040. (You could, if you had access to
an internal node of the chip.)
Believe it or not, I spent weeks of Spice simulation and testing to
make that circuit what it is. A good deal of that was to explore
things that belong to "forbidden conditions" according to the SSM
publications (and which therefore was avoided by all manufacturers
that used the chip back then).

JH.